The Man Without Qualities, Volume 2: Into the Millennium, from the Posthumous Papers (Vintage International) - Softcover

Musil, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679768025 ISBN 13: 9780679768029

Publisher: Vintage, 1996

Synopsis

" Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance." --New Republic.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Acclaimed edition of one of our century's outstanding novels
Dazzlingly written, ferocious in its intelligence, The Man Without Qualities is one of the outstanding novels of the century, which presages our Age of Anxiety. Robert Musil was born in Austria in 1880. With the rise of Hitler in 1938 he emigrated to Switzerland, where he lived until his death in 1942. "The Man Without Qualities is one of the towering achievements of the European novel, and this edition is one of the most important publishing events of recent years" Observer; "Immensely rich and therapeutic, bristling with wit and a sly humour" Sunday Telegraph; "A great novel" Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

Robert Musil was born in 1880 in Austria and studied at the military college in Vienna and undertook an engineering degree in Brno, Czechoslovakia, before turning to psychology and philosophy doctoral studies in Berlin, where he began to write. He married Martha Marcovaldi in 1911. He fought in World War I, where he befriended Franz Kafka in Prague. Following the war, Musil returned to a literary career in Vienna and Berlin, during which time he was nominated for the Nobel Prize. He was the author of Five Women, The Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, and The Confusions of Young Torless. His works were banned by the Nazis, and he and his Jewish wife went into exile during World War II. He died of a stroke in 1942. Musil's works began to reappear in the 1950s, and his unfinished The Man Without Qualities is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679768025
• ISBN 13: 9780679768029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1072